Critics Around the Globe
Take Cracks at 'Da Vinci Code'

Updated May 22, 2006 10:56 a.m. ET

Ron Howard's highly anticipated film adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" garnered mixed marks from critics around the world. Here are a selection of reviews from the U.S., France, Hungary and elsewhere. (Some items are translated.) The film opens in the U.S. Friday.

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GRACELESS ADAPTATION: "Whatever one may think of Dan Brown's book as a piece of literature, it managed to marry great gobs of information with narrative drive. Thus it comes as an unpleasant surprise that the...